I’ve played around with SuperCollider and ScalaCollider, a Scala API that sits on top of SuperCollider. I’ve also tried out LNX_Studio, a DAW written in SuperCollider. And recently I’ve learned about TX Modular, a graphical modular synth written in SuperCollider. I read about TX Modular on Create Digital Music a couple of days ago and wanted to

Update, 12/29/2017: Koen sent a note on Twitter mentioning that the album can be pre-ordered at sidpop64.com. Back in March, Koen De Brabander launched a Kickstarter to create an album in tribute to the C64 SID chip. Earlier this week the album, SID Waves, was released. More than being a tribute to the C64, it’s a

I saw a post about PUSH TURN MOVE a couple of weeks ago on Synth Anatomy (which is looking a lot more polished these days!). It looks like a beautiful coffee table book and great reference for electronic musical instruments. I don’t have a copy but am tempted to pick one up for fun and inspiration. In

Electric Telepathy has a nice set of interactive tutorials that use Web MIDI/Web Audio widgets to explain synthesis concepts, like filter cutoff and envelope decay and sustain. You can play the keyboard of each widget using the bottom row of your computer’s keyboard (the z-m keys) and experiment with the controls to hear their effect

Let’s see. It’s been awhile since the last Month in Music Tech update. I’ve been heads down learning C++ and the JUCE library over the last month or so. Hopefully in a few more months I’ll have a new app to unleash on the world thanks to JUCE’s new licensing model, which makes it more accessible

With some regularity I come across things that look interesting and then forget where I saw them when I finally get around to checking them out. To mitigate this I’m going to try keeping a running list of stuff that catches my eye in monthly “grab bag” posts. Here’s my list over the last few weeks. Automatonism https://www.automatonism.com/

A few days ago, ROLI introduced the BLOCKS modular music system. Used (wirelessly) in conjunction with the NOISE iOS app, BLOCKs gives you three portable modules for making music. First there’s the Lightpad Block, which lets you arrange virtual pads in several grid configurations for triggering sounds. Then there’s the Live Control Block, which gives

To round out my work on blipweb, I created a group on SoundCloud for sharing audio snippets of patches so it’s easy to hear how they sound. By convention, each track uploaded to the group should include a link to the patch so other users can load it on to their MeeBlips using blipweb. You can find the SoundCloud